Comments for Jay McGavren's Journal

Comment on They make ‘em better than they used to… by benatkin

benatkin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:28:57 +0000

Nice! I’m hoping my Hyundai Elantra goes farther than my Dodge Intrepid. I bought my Elantra with 59,500 miles on it and it just passed 70,000 miles, and is still running well. I bought my Intrepid with 85,000 miles and it had various problems and I gave up on it when it had 140,000 miles on it.

A Civic is definitely a smart choice for a car, especially if you’re buying new. They’re well-designed, very practical, and have high resale values.

Comment on Lenny is a REALLY cool kid… by jay

jay — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:50:38 +0000

He actually has a drum set already, but it’s in storage because there’s no space in his room. We should really get it back out.

Comment on Lenny is a REALLY cool kid… by chihiro

chihiro — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:47:47 +0000

maybe… getting a ludwig’s drum set. how’s that?

Comment on 2 hours for 2 seconds… by chihiro

chihiro — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:15:22 +0000

this is awesome, dude! Thanks for sharing with us. Impressive… thanks to your effort!!

Comment on BYOB (Build Your Own Business)… by jay

jay — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:43:41 +0000

Hi, Bob,

Heh - it is indeed Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. And please don’t be offended by my procrastination; it’s one of many books that I intended to “get to when there’s a lull”. Yeah, right, there’s never a lull. :)

I should alert you that the first of the aforementioned frameworks (http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps) is already open-source (LGPL), something I believe I heard you discourage on a podcast. I believe I can still monetize it (probably through closed-source games based on it), but I’ll have to figure out the details.

Comment on BYOB (Build Your Own Business)… by Bob Walsh

Bob Walsh — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:46:15 +0000

Read the book Jay! Seriously, I think I’m the author of the book you’re talking about and I wrote it for fellow developers who had enough of writing software for mind-numbing companies and need some direction on how to get started.

Ben is absolutely right: the better your product (both code quality and how it fits the needs of your customers), the less it takes to support it.

But you’ve got to make the effort…

Comment on :) by benatkin

benatkin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:54:20 +0000

Nice.

Please don’t name a Ruby library after it, though. We already have rak and rack. It’s confusing enough.

Comment on Is my Perl showing? by jay

jay — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:53:42 +0000

Yeah, I uninstalled it long ago as well. Just couldn’t stand it any more.

I haven’t gotten to play with the demo much, but I’m extremely impressed (if for no other reason than you got it working in a browser). I’ll give my full impressions once I’ve had a chance to really try it.

Comment on Gitchy Goo… by benatkin

benatkin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:08:37 +0000

Aŵŵŵŵŵŵ.

Comment on Is my Perl showing? by anjoschu

anjoschu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:26:13 +0000

Well, I’ve deleted the beta and am back to Enso 1. I just can’t get used to that extra Enter.

While waiting, I made what I like to call an Interface Demo. It’s a simulated Enso written in JavaScript, complete with scratch pad and all. Share and enjoy.

Andreas (Yes, it’s me)